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Article: URL suffix family about to grow again
- Article from:
- The Gazette
- Article date:
- March 29, 2004
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By the end of the year, there could be nine new top-level domain
names on the Internet as companions to those ubiquitous URL enders
.com, .org and .edu.
The existing catalog of suffixes, assigned and approved by the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has remained the
same since 2000 when .aero, .biz, .coop, .info, .museum, .name and
.pro came into being.
Ten organizations paid $45,000 before last Tuesday's deadline to
apply for suffixes to be set aside for specific industries and
interest groups, such as adult-oriented businesses (.xxx) or content
for mobile devices (.mobi).
The nine new domains under consideration are .asia, .cat, .jobs,
.mail, .mobi, .post, .tel, ...